The Cannonball - Original - The Carter Family

Oh, listen to the train coming down the line

Trying to make up all their lost time

From Buffalo to Washington

You can wash my jumper starch my overalls

Catch a train they call the Cannonball

From Buffalo to Washington

My baby’s left me, she even took my shoes

Enough to give a man these dog gone worried blues

She’s gone, she’s solid gone

Yonder comes the train, coming down the track

Carry me away but it ain’t going to carry me back

My honey babe, my blue eyed babe

I’m going up north, I’m going up north this fall

If luck don’t change, I won’t be back at all

My honey babe, I’m leaving you